I accuse...

I ACCUSE!

but who?
It's not clear exactly whose name I should list. Who exactly can I blame? That takes the steam out of my anger.
Nonetheless, it is increasingly clear to me that there is a kind of conspiracy involving doctors, private companies which sell health services, and government, a conspiracy designed to make it difficult for citizens to obtain the health care they deserve, the health care which is necessary for a minimally decent life.

Of course, all that is complicated for an eighty-something year old person living in the wilderness which is El Paso, Texas, a city without proper public transport, where it might be necessary to travel for twenty or thirty minutes for a doctor visit. (But do I cheat? Is public transport necessarily better than a private car if you are in your eighties? No, not necessarily, but it is better if you are not able to drive, and it's grotesque and senseless that everything is so far away. It is grotesque and unnecessary... And it doesn't seem to be changing--worst of all! The government is building more and more highways instead of building trams, metros, etc. etc. As if we weren't running out of oil... as if people were not actually dying every year as a result of climate change... as if climate change were not real.... as if professors of this or that at UTEP who might actually know something about climate change were silent......)

So, the inadequacy of the national transport system is a contributing factor in this denial of dignity and decency.
(Or, perhaps, the insane way that cities are not really designed --or designed to achieve perverse purposes---has the consequence that life is harder precisely when it should be easier--harder after a lifetime of work! Hypocrisy in a country which prides itself on the so-called "work ethic". Shameful hypocrisy....
This is not all that I have to say on this topic, but it is all I can say right now.....